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-graphy

 
a combining form denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording, describing, etc., or an art or science concerned with such a process: biography; choreography; geography; orthography; photography.
Origin:
< Gk -graphia. See -graph, -y 3
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-graphy  
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  1. Writing or representation produced in a specified manner or by a specified process: photography.
    1. Writing about a specified subject: oceanography.
    2. Representation of a specified object: phonography.


[Latin -graphia, from Greek -graphiā, from graphein, to write; see gerbh- in Indo-European roots.]

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-graphy

Car*tog"ra*phy\, n. [Cf. F. cartographie. See Card, and -graphy.] The art or business of forming charts or maps.

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